South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea

Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, France, joined from the London School of Economics and Political Science where she had taught since 2004, after completing her PhD at the University of London, Goldsmiths College. Her books are Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (Routledge, 2005); Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (Routledge, 2008); Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women: Diasporic Daughters (Routledge, 2011); Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global (Routledge, 2013); Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society (Routledge, 2016); Childcare Workers, Global Migration and Digital Media (Routledge, 2017).

• Introduction - Hallyu and North Korea: Soft Power of Popular Culture Part I Popular Culture as Soft Power 1 Soft Power and the Korean Wave 2 The Korean Wave as a Powerful Agent: Hidden Stories from a North Korean Defector3 Popular Culture in Transitional Societies: An Eastern European PerspectivePart II Circulation of Meaning 4 Black Markets, Red States: Media Piracy in China and the Korean Wave in North Korea5 The Korean Wave: A Pull Factor for North Korean Migration6 Hallyu in the South, Hunger in the North: Alternative Imaginings of What Life Could Be7 South Korean Media Reception and Youth Culture in North Korea Part III Contesting Voices 8 Other as Brother or Lover: North Koreans in South Korean Visual Media9 Discursive Construction of Hallyu-in-North Korea in South Korean News Media10 Webtoon and Intimacy: Reception of North Korean Defectors’ Survival Narratives 11 Revealing Voices?: North Korean Males and the South Korean Mediascape

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